Live Webinar – April 6, 12:00 pm EST
Offered by Global Knowledge.Presenter ( REP 1999)
Duration 1 hour 1 Category A PDU Free

Every day in your business and personal life you have to know how to negotiate.

Whether the topic is as informal as setting a curfew for a child or as formal as asking for a raise, the basic concepts are the same.

If you can anticipate possible outcomes and create your exit plans, you’ll be in a better position to negotiate successfully.

In this webinar, you’ll discover negotiation strategies, tools, and techniques that will help you create a solution that works for all parties involved.

You will learn to:

• Understand the circumstance/situation
• Recognize the desires of the other party
• Identify the possible outcomes of the negotiation
• Use negotiation strategies, tools, and techniques
• Find a solution that is acceptable to both parties

Outline:

1. Everything is Negotiable
2. Know Them Before They Know You
3. Understand Their Perspective
4. Develop Multiple Exits Plan
5. Getting To “Yes”

Here at pduOTD the learning opportunities that our readers most often request are opportunities to learn to be better negotiators. Negotiation skill training is a “skill” that pays off in a big way. We negotiate scope performance and price – give your project the negotiation edge!

Instructor: Kirsten Lora is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and ITIL practitioner who specializes in product development, new business startups, and establishing project management offices. Kirsten has over 15 years experience managing IT, product, and educational programs for clients, working extensively as a project and program manager in the IT, insurance, state government, and educational industries.

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Live Webinar – Tuesday April 5, 12:00-1:00 PM EST
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) 1 Category A PDU Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 PDU for participating.

As companies work to migrate their software development approach from Waterfall to Agile, they often begin to discover that the limited set of tools offered by the Agile (or Scrum) framework alone do not satisfy organizational needs.

Larger projects, more teams, and limited resources are often the hallmark and impetus to implement a Lean development approach. In Lean development, value streams and waste elimination drive the creation of better products, more profitable efforts, and fully utilized resource teams.

In this web seminar we will discuss the process, function, and benefits of utilizing Kanban and Lean to streamline your efforts.

Seminar Presenter:

Bill Gaiennie (LinkedIn profile) has more than 16 years of working in the software development field as a developer, project manager, ScrumMaster, and a training coach. Bill has coached and managed teams on both the national and international levels, having worked with an extensive range of client types and industries from small start-ups for Fortune 50 companies. Bill is an accomplished, experienced Agile trainer, effectively leading product and project teams in a wide array of Agile management and methodology based initiatives. With over five years of Agile Implementation, Coaching, and Training experience, Bill has coached and trained over 3,000 individuals at 100 different companies in their effort to implement Agile software development strategies. He is currently an accredited member of the Project Management Institute (PMI) and is active in the Agile Alliance and Scrum Alliance communities.

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Live Webinar April 5, 2011 – 11:00 am to 12:00 pm EDT
Presented by the Corporate Education Group ( REP 1011 )
Duration: 1 Hour Credits: 1 PDU Free Course ID MDW1260

Are you looking for techniques for successfully scoping a project?

Then, this webinar is for you!

1. Explore how to get from a starting point to an end result that satisfies the business goal
2. Examine the requirements process and learn strategies for successfully managing scope changes
3. Distinguish between product and project scope
4. Discover how your project team can set boundaries and better manage stakeholder expectations.

Key learning points include:

• Best practices for identifying and documenting scope
• Differences between product and project scope
• Techniques for identifying requirements and managing changes

About the presenter: Bonnie Cooper (LinkedIn profile), PMP®, Instructor and Consultant for Corporate Education Group, is a twenty-year information technology professional. In her current role as the Program Director for the Massachusetts Medical Society’s (MMS) Corporate IT Program Office, Bonnie is responsible for coordinating the efforts of project teams, overseeing the implementation of project standards, managing the corporate IT strategic plan, and leading the program to re-engineer the membership platform for MMS.

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Live Webinar April 6th, 2011 2:00pm – 3:00pm EST
Presenter: Fierce, Inc. Halley Bock, CEO 1 Category C PDU

Employee engagement is a leading indicator of financial performance.

Learn 7 principles/practices that you can immediately apply to improve your corporations engagement.

Research shows that a highly engaged workforce often translates to increased productivity, better revenue and higher profits. As a result, what was once viewed as a “soft” skill is now recognized as an essential strategy and skill set required for organizational success.

Two articles will be referenced during the webinar:

• The Economics of Engagement, by Allan Schweyer, Human Capital Institute
• How Employee Engagement Drives Business Success, by Eric Mosley, ChiefExecutive.net

Unfortunately, most companies don’t know how to “do” engagement.

This webinar will examine the critical role of conversations in building effective workplace cultures.

Presenter: Halley Bock (LinkedIn profile) is the President & CEO of Fierce, Inc. Her company helps clients worldwide develop leaders, transform cultures, and create authentic, energizing and rewarding connections with colleagues and customers through skillful conversations.

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Live Webinar April 6, 2011 12:00 pm EDT
Offered by ASPE (REP 2161) Free
This is a 1 hour seminar and attendees will be awarded 1 Category A PDU for participating.

• Are you having trouble with your social media marketing?
• Are you frustrated with not seeing the response that you want?
• Are you struggling to show a return or business impact?

We know many of you are. Jeremy Smith, ASPE-ROI Instructor and Social Media Authority, and JT Moore, Director of Marketing will give you important answers & key information to help you make social media marketing work for you.

They will show you how to:

• Create a Social Media Plan that works with your traditional marketing efforts
• Look at campaign strategies that work for your business objectives
• How to find your target audience in various social networks
• Develop an overall strategy and roadmap that is actionable and results-oriented
• How to accurately track results and measure success in social media
• Utilize tools to help you more efficiently allocate time and resources to social media

Panelist(s) Info: Jeremy Smith and JT Moore (LinkedIn profile)

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